Treating the Wounded

At dawn, just as the sun rose, the Konoha Shinobi began cleaning up Kikyo City after the great battle. A large number of houses in the city had been destroyed in the fighting. Corpses lay strewn everywhere—across the streets, in the gutters, inside houses, and on rooftops. A rough estimate put the number of corpses in Kikyo City at well over twenty thousand. Countless civilians from the Land of Fire had fallen here forever. They were all unfortunate victims caught in the fighting between the Shinobi.